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What kind of future do you expect from the world? What kind of future that I wanted? What kind of future that we all wanted? We all want one thing for sure , which is a safe and peaceful world to live in.  Furthermore , what does exactly safe and peaceful mean?

First of all, lets talk some of the world’s biggest problems first. 

Oil is nonrenewable sources, but our civilization is based on it. Petroleum has powered the modern world for almost 100 years.  This means that in the years ahead, if we’re not prepared to find its substitutes, we might live in chaos. The experts have found it’s quite difficult to find the substitutes, for examples : hydrogen has storage and other problems, we can’t use enough wind turbines, and solar power is quite expensive to provide us all the energy we need. This oil problem will enhance others problem such poverty, wars, and more. All we can do for helping is conserving the energy as well from now on by eliminating the use of energy that really isn't needed by us. 

Rapid climate change or global warming indeed is affecting the way we live. Fossil fuels that we are burning up is spewing carbon dioxide in the air, which prevents sunlight from getting out and causes the Earth to warm up. The greatest threats to our world is not “Global terrorism”, “World War III”, or even “weapons of mass destruction” , but our mother nature. This includes increased irregular weather patterns, rising sea levels, earthquakes, and all of the events that can caused by climate change. This is a problem that needs to be dealt with in the years ahead if we are to avoid destructive events, such tsunami, Katrina storm, species extinction, and so forth.  

Poor education, I am a firm believer that education conquers all. I believe, with good and equitable education, would naturally  gravitate towards increased personal freedoms and human rights as the education of the population increased. 

Religions , discrimination , and everything that related, are some of the biggest problem on earth. Discrimination, we do it sometimes in the way we associate with people in our everyday life even we don't realize. Discrimination can happen also in the name of religion. Religions, throughout history it has started wars and been used to justify everything from genocide to slavery.  The solution to this problem is to create peace among religions. Religions shouldn’t be washed away, it just needs to change. And I think It would help if everyone would recognize the worth , equity, and dignity of every person, religions just a medium for us to be closer to God and to be better as a human. In our future, there should not be any differences, differences where people are looked by their religions, race, social status, etc. We all want to ruling out discrimination against future generations. 

Technology should be a solution for many world’s problems, especially non-renewable sources problem and environmental friendly system. The technology could bring us together, the people of the world can see and protect each other. We are living in a new world, social media world, where people can share ideas and not thinking in borders. Efficient policies should be compatible with increasing human welfare.

In a picture of an ideal future, the problems above should not be there anymore. So, for me a safe and peaceful world is a world that doesn’t have those problems, and  including sustainable development in every aspect and the culture of peace within it. Sustainable development should  meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development based on the assumption that societies need to manage capitals (social, economic, natural, cultural) , which may be non-substitutable and whose consumption might be irreversible.  Ways of living more sustainably can take many forms from controlling living conditions and reappraising work practices (e.g., using permaculture, green building, sustainable energy), or developing new technologies that reduce the consumption of resources.

We are one world, all brothers and sisters. It’s nothing to do with age, race, nationality, or whether you have money or not. We should create a safer, more peaceful, cleaner environment for every living thing on planet earth and it could help to avoid our planet’s ultimate downfall. Humanity  is no longer as simple as thinking of generation existence, but we have to make sure that the world we leave behind is as good as, or might be better than, the one we found. The future doesn’t have to resemble the past, we all can create the future we want.